I\'m looking for a way to serialize floating p开发者_运维技巧oints so that in their serialized form a lexicographical comparison is the same as a floating point comparison. I think it is possible by s
开发者_开发问答What does \"compare two strings lexicographically\" mean?Leading from answers from @Bozho and @aioobe, lexicographic comparisons are similar to the ordering that one might find in a dic
I\'ve got following 开发者_运维百科problem with gawk\'s asorti function: gawk \'BEGIN{ \\ a[1]=6; \\
For reasons I completely disagree with but \"The Powers (of Anti-Usability) That Be\" continue to decree despite my objections, I have a sorting routine which does basic strcmp() compares to sort by i
Does anyone know of a library for encoding a number of primitiv开发者_JAVA技巧e types (like integers, floats, strings, etc) into a string but preserving the lexicographical order of the types?